Well, hello there.
It has been one year since I last posted on this blog. That is no small feat. How embarrassing.
If it helps, I forgot the pw for a while! Honest!
And in the meantime, I purchased a smartphone with internet services so my life in pictures was monopolized on by Facebook.
What has happened since then? Many many cooking and baking projects, culinary discoveries, a few trips--in fact, two to Chicago, alone--and one life-altering decision! ;) But I do apologize, I should have been documenting highlights of the year in blog-form.
I've never had so much free time as I did this year. School was out, work was in. Some of my cooking obsessions this year included: Korean Samgyetang (chicken soup with sweet rice), pajun (savory pancakes), hodduck (sweet pancakes from yeast-based dough), Southern-style fried chicken, the best 7 cheese (actually 8) mac n' cheese you've ever eaten, chocolate cupcakes, honey cornbread, mint tea, apricot danish pastry, Nelly's guacamole, "healthy" blueberry muffins, katsu of all types of meat, real steak. And all of it was fun, even if sometimes I was so disheartened by the failed end-product that I never wanted to enter a kitchen for the rest of my life.
Living in Baldwin Park, which has a huge Latino community, introduced me to a lot of cuisines I'd never tried before like Salvadoran, Peruvian and Nicaraguan. Discoveries that were a big hit with me: Mulitas, pupusas (Los Molcajetes, Baldwin Park), gallo pinto, platanos frijoles, Salvadoran horchata, fried shrimp tacos (Tacos Enscenadas, Duarte), and--I should mention it again because I never liked the stuff before until my roommate made her granny's recipe--Nelly's guacamole :) But I'm still not a fan of mole or menudo.
I was fed even more food on my grad school visits. Being wined and dined after interviews is awesome! Which brings me to.....
Guess what!? I'll be in LA for at least 6 more years! Hoping to obtain a PhD in the Biological Sciences at UCLA. So please stick around for hopefully many more entries on this blog ;D
Good news: I'll be living on a street where there is a weekly visit from local California farmers! Here's to fresh and unbelievably good produce! Cheers~
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